The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
William FaulknerIt surged up out of the water and stood for an instant upright upon that surging and heaving desolation like Christ.
William FaulknerIt's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William FaulknerStichwörter: humor
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
William FaulknerMarriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
William FaulknerYou can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
William FaulknerThe phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.
William FaulknerStichwörter: war
How do our lives ravel out
into the no-wind, no-sound,
the weary gestures wearily recapitulant:
echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string:
in sunset we fall into furious attitudes,
dead gestures of dolls.
Wonder. Go on and wonder.
William FaulknerYou should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
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